What can they do without access to their data?
Of those companies participating in the 2001 Cost of Downtime Survey: 46% said each hour of downtime would cost their companies up to $50k, 28% said each hour would cost between $51K and $250K, 18% said each hour would cost between $251K and $1 million, 8% said it would cost their companies more than $1million per hour. (Source: 2001 Cost of Downtime Survey Results, 2001.)
How many minutes has your network been down, planned or unplanned?
93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington.)

Data availability takes performance to another level.

It is a study into the ability of a solution to be resilient and be available to users all the time. Solutions may vary, but the goal is to get closer and closer to 24/7 - data available all the time.

When people in the industry speak about network troubles they often refer to 'Downtime'. The new paradigm relates to rules and components of a solution that keep your systems up longer and longer, to prevent any occurrence of 'Downtime'. This new term is called 'UPTIME'.

Solutions in this genre relate to duplicating processes and systems to enable a seamless failover such as clustering or load balancing so that any one device cannot bring down the network or take your data offline.

Fault Tolerance is a technology that offers a form of redundancy, and goes right along with RAID solutions. These technologies will allow your systems to be more robust and less vulnerable to hardware failure, however they do not address UPTIME.

UPTIME is a process of eliminating not only hardware failures, but eliminating the business interruption that they may cause.  For example, having a RAID subsystem will help in the event of a disk failure, but if the system has to be brought down to be repaired then it does not reach the criteria needed to be disaster resilient.

In some cases a much higher level of redundancy and failover must occur. This must also take into account ALL networking devices within the range of the given transactions. From server hard drives to fiber connections.

Here are some further explanations of these technologies:
How can we help?
Experience - Our expertise has been called upon by the U.S. State Department as well as Banks and Computer Manufacturers based in Houston.

FSDM - Our methodology for IT has been built up from 20 years of computer networking experience, and what makes us different is we wrote it all down.

Managed Services - Our solution will allow you to manage your business while we take care of the tools that make your business run. Our experience guarantees your IT department will be a better more responsible department. Our policies and procedures give you tools to see what is really going on.

Documentation - We document our work, and your network. If things go bad and you have to evacuate the building, there are procedures for shut down, for evacuating equipment, and protecting data, written so that anyone can figure it out. Minimize your risk, call Marloe Group today.

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